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In the coming months, affordable housing construction on two developments will begin in Bedford Park. The Bedford Mosholu Community Association (BMCA) discussed these projects coming to the neighborhood at their monthly meeting on Nov. 7.
“Unfortunately, we’re losing a lot of our private homes in the area,” said Barbara Stronczer, BMCA president, at the latest meeting.
The building will be built along a stretch of lots once belonging to one- and two-family homes. Among those lots is 267 E. 202nd Street, which had been a two-family home. Its owner, Peter Fine, knocked down the property along with two adjacent homes on East 202nd Street and two directly behind those lots on East 203rd Street. Tenants of the two-family home were in the middle of a lawsuit against Fine, who had evicted them. Coincidentally, the building burned down in the middle of the suit, with FDNY ruling it accidental.
Rendering courtesy CAMBA
Stronczer said that the nonprofit CAMBA Housing Ventures (CHV), will be building two large residential buildings on East 202nd and East 203rd streets between Briggs and Valentine avenues. They have already fenced off the area and commenced digging.
CHV began in 2005. Since then, CHV has been establishing homes for low income, disabled, or homeless New York City residents mostly in Brooklyn. It’s unclear whether Fine is partnering with CHV to build the homes or simply leasing the space.
Stronczer said the two buildings are supposed to contain a total of 229 units. Seventy percent of the units for one building will be rented through a lottery system, and 50 percent of the lottery will be reserved for residents living within Community Board 7. Five percent will be reserved for those with mobility disabilities, two percent for those with vision and hearing disabilities, and five percent for employees of the city. Out of the remaining units, 99 will be reserved for individuals or families that had been living in shelters.
Rendering courtesy CAMBA
The apartment buildings will have 24-hour front desk security, laundry facilities, and a place to lock bikes; however, there will be no parking lot. With parking already limited in the Bronx, the burden of finding a public spot could increase.
“My concern is that these are very narrow streets, and not great,” Stronczer said.
A spokesperson for CAMBA did not return a call seeking comment.
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.
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This is a awful thing in a overcrowded area already…there is no parking now due to taking over former parking lot and private parking….they should build a garage to accomadate their residents and for neighborhood .
There goes the neighborhood! This building will be injecting to the neighborhood a lower quality demographics that will definitely impact the neighborhood in a negative way. Homeless shelter people will infiltrate the area as well as low income “lottery” people from other parts of the city. They all sound like winners, don’t they? Why not rent to REGULAR middle class folks with no social and behavioral issue that would enhance the quality of the area? Such a shame they keep building these low income/supportive housing in the surrounding area. It appears these politicians want to destroy historically decent north Bronx neighborhoods in exchange for cleansing Gentrifying areas by flushing out the undesirables and rejects. North Bronx residents should be outraged at this as it has become the dumping ground for these people.
well the community board 7 has political appointees that will do as their elected wants . kiss that neighborhood goodbye
I lived at mosholu parkway for some time before I moved upstate 20 years ago and would like to return to the Bronx and would like some info on renting in one of the new buildings being constructed please help thanks